At the risk of sounding overly woke, houses and cars are terrible for the climate. Also, there's a reason that big businesses and highly-educated professionals gravitate towards. More fluid labor and job markets. I'd think a better goal here would be build up technology industries in smaller cities.
MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#22I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…
I'm a software engineer at a FANG, in a VHCOL city...and I feel completely out of touch with whatever cultural circles these people live in.
> We are three former Googlers who are on a mission to help create jobs in rural and suburban cities around America.
Ok, yeah, that explains it
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#23I moved to Boston about 18 months ago, and while it's not as crazy out here as it is in the Bay, I really don't think I want to spend the next ten years with a 3 hour daily commute, living in a house that costs four times as much, for half the square footage, as the one I had in rural New York.
I'm around Boston too. Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but what's your commute like now?
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#24Weird. The splash page says:
> help you find a job you love in a city you can afford
But the "About", "For Companies" and "How it works" pages are pretty focused on remote work:
> Companies are more ready than ever to utilize distributed workforces, and this is creating opportunities for workers everywhere to be part of the digital economy... MainStreet provides the community, communication, and career tools you need to be happy and successful as a remote employee.
> Interested in expanding your remote workforce? ...All our candidates have been evaluated for remote-readiness so they can hit the ground running from day one.
> The companies we work with pay us to help successfully recruit and retain remote talent.
Sounds like it's REALLY about setting up remote work, which is not what the home page implies, right?
Doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense to me. Ah right, the "About" page leads with:
> We are three former Googlers who are on a mission to help create jobs in rural and suburban cities around America.
OK, it's just the usual engineer-entrepeneurs trying to "get rich by doing good," with a plan that may or may not make sense either on the business or the pro-social end.
I suppose the employer's interest in paying them to help recruit and coordinate remote workers is... paying them less then they'd have to in the bay area? (plus less overhead compared to on-premises in the bay area, office rent etc).
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#25At the risk of sounding overly woke, houses and cars are terrible for the climate. Also, there's a reason that big businesses and highly-educated professionals gravitate towards. More fluid labor and job markets. I'd think a better goal here would be build up technology industries in smaller cities.
Houses are terrible for the climate?
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#26At the risk of sounding overly woke, houses and cars are terrible for the climate. Also, there's a reason that big businesses and highly-educated professionals gravitate towards. More fluid labor and job markets. I'd think a better goal here would be build up technology industries in smaller cities.
They do not necessarily have to be smaller cities just cities that have lost population or just are stagnant but have the infrastructure already in place to support more people.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#27"To collect the $10,000, you’ll need to become a MainStreet Member and work out of one of our MainStreet offices for at least 12 months." This is raising red flags, somehow.
MainStreet is sharing a cut of their fee taken in from employers who want to pay less for labor, but aren't entirely comfortable with remote work. Think of it as headhunter meets coworking space meets UpWork.
If you can't fix your corporate culture, and you can't compete on comp, fake it until you make it.
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#28At the risk of sounding overly woke, houses and cars are terrible for the climate. Also, there's a reason that big businesses and highly-educated professionals gravitate towards. More fluid labor and job markets. I'd think a better goal here would be build up technology industries in smaller cities.
Houses are terrible for the climate?
I am assuming that they mean the clear cutting of natural habitats to build more housing in some areas.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#29I got a laugh out of the picture of the house; a stereotypical Eichler. ( https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-are-eichler-homes/ ) Eichlers are very common in Palo Alto, but not so common throughout the rest of the US. (Edit: And yes, I left the Bay Area, and bought what most people living in the Bay Area would consider a mansion, in a high-cost-of-living state. I paid less then my Bay Area rent for a 1-bedroom w…
Thanks, I never knew there was a name for this, though I've seen this kind of house all through the Peninsula - there are also a lot of them in the hills west of San Mateo. And, now that I think of it, Erlich Bachmann's house is one.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…
I'm a software engineer at a FANG, in a VHCOL city...and I feel completely out of touch with whatever cultural circles these people live in. > We are three former Googlers who are on a mission to help create jobs in rural and suburban cities around America. Ok, yeah, that explains it
Could you please explain how that explains it to someone who needs more explanation?